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by davidgh 9y ago
I figured this out years ago when I realized servers asked the question “desert tonight?” and have the check indiscreetly in their hand ready to drop on the table. It’s sorta like the neighbors asking you if you’d like to stay a little long
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by davidgh 9y ago
When vacationing with our family last year we stayed in a eight different AirBnBs. We talked extensively about this and came to the same conclusion - there is no upside in leaving a negative review! There is a downside so I just don’t do it
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by davidgh 9y ago
Not trying to be pendantic but the entire hostname is exposed, not just the domain name. I’m assuming that’s what you meant.
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by davidgh 9y ago
In terms of rural areas, this will be an interesting challenge. When you drive cross country in the USA, you can expect to find gasoline reasonably close to even the most remote areas. The distance to the next gas station from anywhere in t
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by davidgh 9y ago
When Bitcoin was $1,000 you could have made the same argument in suggesting it would never go to $15,000. Buyers today are not considering “should I or should I not enrich those who bought earlier”. They are simply making a bet that the val
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by davidgh 9y ago
The “moon” is the value required to have the jaw of your doctor / lawyer neighbor hit the ground when you tell them “I own one bitcoin”.
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by davidgh 9y ago
As a parent of three adolescents I enjoy the fact that I can reach my kids whenever and Find My Friends allows me to confirm that they made it to school safely on a snowy day, for example. However. I did some volunteer teaching for a couple
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by davidgh 9y ago
Watching this whole thing really has me scratching my head. Honestly - the value of BTC in a decade is anyone’s guess. For me, I have a modest holding (in terms of its USD value today as compared to my other investments). After much wrestli
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by davidgh 9y ago
Niche knowledge. We had our first house built for us. I learned a ton in the process and lots of “if I ever have a house built again I will remember to...” Some years later, we decided to move and build another house. Alas, all those things
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by davidgh 9y ago
And the lawmakers in the US know a dirty secret: if taxpayers had to actually write a check for their entire tax bill on April 15 each year there would be blood in the streets. Instead - the withholding system not only keeps the riots at ba
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by davidgh 9y ago
Then you should buy term life insurance. It’s dirt cheap to cover you when you need it most (young, raising a family, don’t have much saved, paying off a house and perhaps education) and if prudent eventually the need to insure your life is
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by davidgh 9y ago
I like this in concept. I do fear, however, that larger or deep-pocketed companies that end up on “the list” will be able to litigate and lawsuit their way off while the smaller guys will be banished forever.
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by davidgh 9y ago
The cost of utilities in the US are relatively cheap - especially compared to many places in Europe. The cost of electricity in Ireland, for example, is more than triple what I pay in my state [1]. This also applies to gasoline / petro
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by davidgh 9y ago
I've often thought about the large size of houses in the United States. I'm sure the reasons are complex and various, but here are some of the drivers of large and "cheaply built" homes. I don't say "cheaply&qu
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by davidgh 9y ago
Can I ask - what’s the motivation to locate yourself in the US while you bootstrap your startup? Is it that you need the US presence to be closer to customers or partners, establish some type of perceived legitimacy, prepare yourself to bri
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by davidgh 9y ago
I was speaking less about the specific debate between NoSQL and RDBMS and more about being cautious to not over-think the technical aspects in general. Speaking specifically about NoSQL: I’ve been able to launch entire MVPs using DynamoDB,
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by davidgh 9y ago
If your goal is to build a sustainable business you must address two questions: Will I provide value people are willing to pay for? Will I be able to find those people profitably? Both answers must be yes. You might be able to answer one of
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by davidgh 9y ago
I appreciated the point that VCs think about education differently than the masses. Reminds me of the AirBnB guys pitching their original idea of people renting out their couch for strangers to sleep on and getting thrown out by virtually a
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by davidgh 9y ago
Whoa that read like a Tom Clancy novel. I started reading right before we had to go somewhere so I told my wife when we got into the car (I was driving) “please read this out loud”. At the end she and my daughter were completely captivated
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by davidgh 9y ago
I strongly agree with this. It is not an uncommon experience for me while working on something (either for work or personal) and hit a problem or annoyance and then go to work looking for the solution. Occasionally, I can’t find a solution
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by davidgh 9y ago
This. Set aside the performance of the initial load for a moment. When I interact with the SPAs we’ve built in recent years, I am still shocked how snappy they are as I perform actions throughout the site. Every “pageview” requires the down
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by davidgh 9y ago
Since you already know what you are going to build (the existing business is the model) I would spend a fair amount of effort thinking about how you are going to take it to market. Assume you already built it - what are you going to do tomo
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by davidgh 9y ago
This was talking about international flights. The difference is much, much more than a few hundred bucks. If you’re buying an international economy ticket from the US for $1500, the business class seat on that same flight will often cost $6
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by davidgh 9y ago
I love the alternate airports. What I lose in being less conveniently located I more than make up in arriving at a generally much smaller, less busy, and quieter facility.
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by davidgh 9y ago
I have never struggled to come up with ideas. Every problem to me seems to be an opportunity. Add to that - I love building things that solve real problems. As such - for years I allowed myself to become a mini-factory of widgets built upon
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by davidgh 9y ago
How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson. Walks you through a half dozen foundational inventions and the process through which they came to be. Fascinating to see what the inventors were trying to solve vs. how the world ended up applying their te
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by davidgh 9y ago
I spent a significant amount of time in Russia in late 90s. At the time the economic situation was quite bad for most - leaving many to wonder how to provide the most basic essentials for themselves and their families. I learned that in the
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by davidgh 10y ago
I was a co-founder of a business where I served as the lead product developer and served as tech support for many years at the same time. When you craft something with your own two hands - pouring sweat and tears (literally) into it - and a
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by davidgh 10y ago
Some years ago I spent a lot of time calorie counting. I got pretty good at estimating but more importantly became keenly aware of where the calories are hidden. You start to develop simple rules of thumb: beware of the breads and sugars, f
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by davidgh 10y ago
We wrestled with #1 (and therefore #2) for a long time. Amazing how carful you have to be. EC2 meta data is a place where a lot of services have their pants down unknowingly. Our eventual solution? AWS Lambda. We built a simple function tha

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